It's going to be late, but it's also going to be good, lawmakers pledge.
After a couple of years of incessant partisan infighting between Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and Republican legislative majorities, it looks like money may be the oil that gets some things done as Wolf prepares to sign off on his eighth and final state budget.
About the overall package, Thursday was a day of continuing negotiations on Pennsylvania Holy Grails like a reduction in the state’s 9.99 percent corporate net income - long scene as a drag on business location and job growth in the commonwealth - and seeing how high Gov. Tom Wolf and his Democratic allies can push new investment in public schools.
“The product is the most important thing,” agreed Rep. Matt Bradford, D-Montgomery County, and the ranking Democrat on the appropriations committee. A ban or, at the least, much tighter regulations surrounding the use by county election administrators of grants from foundations and other non-governmental groups designed to help finance election administration. Some in the GOP have argued that in some counties those funds were used in ways that tilted the partisan playing field.
It’s not clear when the Republicans decided to use the budget as a tool of policy diplomacy but there is plenty of money to work with in 2022.
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